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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R7,170
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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Hardcover, New): Matthew Leigh

Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Hardcover, New)

Matthew Leigh

Series: Oxford Classical Monographs

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The Pharsalia is Lucan's epic on the civil wars between Caesar and Pompey. It is a poem of immense energy and intelligence in which spectacle and spectatorship are prominent. The author shows that by transforming certain Virgilian narrative devices Lucan launches an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid: where Virgil writes the foundation myth for the new regime and celebrates the connections between Augustus and Aeneas, Lucan produces a savagely republican anti-Aeneid which represents the civil wars as the death of Rome.

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Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
Release date: March 1997
First published: March 1997
Authors: Matthew Leigh (Tutor in Classics)
Dimensions: 224 x 145 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815067-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
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LSN: 0-19-815067-9
Barcode: 9780198150671

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